Donald Trump has handed Elon Musk a central role in a new US Government efficiency drive.

Government boards need stronger policies to handle conflicts of interest, an audit finds.

A billion-dollar contract scandal has prompted serious questions about Australia’s Defence Department.

Queensland Premier David Crisafulli’s former training company appears to have claimed government funds for instruction hours that were never provided.

WA Labor’s electioneering, funded by taxpayers, has drawn fire from the state’s corruption watchdog.

The Federal Government says it will release a confidential chapter of the Robodebt Royal Commission’s final report at some point.

Optus has been fined over $12 million for Triple Zero service failures.

New standards are being created to drive diversity in Australia’s tech sector.

New legislation has been introduced to make free TAFE permanent.

Australia has appointed its first anti-slavery watchdog.

Legislation to ban social media access for those under 16 is expected to pass Parliament soon.

Parliament House is still an unsafe workplace, a new report reveals.

Australia’s VET regulator, ASQA, appears to be failing the fraud prevention test.

The corruption watchdog says its integrity work is messy, controversial, and only just beginning.

A former Home Affairs employee has been given a suspended jail sentence for unauthorised access to records.

WA’s Hakea Prison is strained by overcrowding and poor conditions, and official inspector’s report says.

A new report suggests Australia’s mental health care system is stretched beyond its limits.

LEGO bricks are being used to build bridges between midwifery and medical students.

Despite comprising nearly 90 per cent of Australia's nursing workforce, new stats show female nurses face a persistent and widening pay gap.

Three people have been jailed over a $5.8 million NDIS fraud.

Queensland is facing backlash as its Truth-Telling Inquiry grinds to a halt.

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For the last few weeks we have been bogged down in the very Earthly matters of royalty, budgets, politics, humanity and celebrity - all good prompts to look away, up into the infinite. 

Health authorities, politicians and scientists have been slowly introducing the world to the concept of ‘One Health’ - an all-inclusive approach to health that extends from the human body right through the global environment. 

This year’s Nobel Prizes honour discoveries that unwind our notion of truth, our understanding of ourselves and the human story, the complexities of cells and the very basics of the universe. 

XENOTRANSPLANTATION - sounds like something that would happen to an ill-fated crew member in Star Trek, but it is also a technical term for using non-human parts to treat or enhance our own bodies. 

I am Tim Hall; a red-blooded, beer-drinking, car-driving Australian male who has no interest in watching sports – at least, not the sports played by humans.

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